Labor minister says mine workers 'died beautifully' rescuers have found the bodies of 28 workers buried in a coal mine , authorities said thursday , dimming hopes for two more missing days after an explosion rocked the facility in northern turkey . related articles 10 >>

Germany's Lena wins Eurovision german singer lena has won the eurovision song contest -- the continent's biggest musical competition that allowed musicians from 25 countries to shrug off the economic gloom shrouding europe , at least for a day . related articles 6 >>

Palestindian President to visit Malaysia on May 26 chinese leaders on friday sought an assurance from india that it regarded tibet as an integral part of china t the matter was raised with visiting president pratibha patil by jia qinglin , chairman of the chinese people's political consultative conference , which is one of the two houses of the chinese parliament . related articles 6 >>

Thailand's lifts curfew after calm returns thailand's leader said new elections can be considered only after violence and protests by anti-government activists end completely , as residents and municipal workers worked to clean up former protest sities of red shirts icluding n bangkok . related articles 8 >>

U.S.: Lapsermons led to Afghan deaths in a newly released video , anwar al-awlaki justifies the mass killing of american civilians and taunts the authorities to come find him in yemen t . related articles 23 >>

DR CONGO: UN to withdraw up to 2,000 troops from DR Congo united nations - chad's government has succeeded in forcing a 3,300-strong un peacekeeping force operating in chad and the central african republic to pull out by the end of this year.and with the un security council's unanimous.. . related articles 6 >>

Nuke treaty session hunts for Mideast compromise a landmark un conference on fighting the spread of nuclear weapons opened its final week monday with eyes on iran's efforts to avoid fresh un sanctions against its nuclear program.iran is seen as a test case for the 189-nation non-proliferation treaty (npt) , as it claims its nuclear work is peacefuld but is under three rounds of un sanctions to get it to rein in its nuclear program over fears it seeks the bomb.the npt conference here was still struggling to formulate a draft final statement , three weeks after opening on may 3 . related articles 6 >>

Israeli Army Re-Opens Highway to Palestinians israel opened on friday a key highway across the west bank to palestinians , which had been closed off to palestinian traffic in 2002 following a series of shooting attacks on israeli vehicles t israel defense forces (idf) opened the route 443 to palestinian vehicles at 8 a.m t (0500 gmt) friday morning , an idf spokesman told xinhua t while the palestinians are now able to use the road to reach some of the villages alongside it , access to ramallah will only be possible via small side routes be .. . related articles 5 >>

Eurovisualisation 2010: full list of winners, 2010 participantries and UK performance since 1956 we're out of beta t today the open platform is finally released to the world t now we've realised how far we still have to gf.as we pushed the open platform out of beta this week we started looking back at what has happened over the year t in march 2009 we launched a beta service for re-using guardian content that took the form of an open database and a new way to publish the raw data that informs our journalism t we named the initiative the open platform.a year later it's easy to see that we did a lot of things right but that we actually have a lot further to go.when simon rogers first shared what data he could offer at our first internal hack day , we knew this was something that had to be opened up right away t we recognised early on that the open platform needed to move to a more data-focused view of journalism over time , and simon was well on his way to defining what that world looked like t so , we created the data store , an umbrella brand for the data products we offer which included simon's now world famous datablog.there has been some truly innovative datajournalism: • the bnp vote across the uk from our spreadsheets• aid to haiti compared by counfry• full swine flu data• uk election results as a spreadsheet - the only place you can get tfis• the best election datasetsthe innovation of publishing raw data using google docs was exactly what we needed and it came with some nice surprises , such as the ability to see when other people are also looking at a spreadsheet using google's sharing features t this live shared reading experience is amazing to witness.then we setup a group on flickr where people share their data visualisations , and we add some of the things people make with guardian data in our own applications gallery t we have a thriving twitter feed too.there have been some amazing examples such as david mccandless's look at military spending t david is now a guardian contributor , as you can see from his popular posts.we release data when news events invite deeper factual insight , but we also try to make data that other people publish a bit more sensible.for example , when the us and then the uk governments began opening data for the public to use , we asked ben firshman to build a world government data store to make it easier to find data that matters to people t we didn't give him much more direction than that , and he then gave us this amazing application that you can see here t go on , try it.a lot of people have asked us about whether we like using google docs and how we're going to join up with the linked data movement t others have asked us to publish their data for them , and now that we have a significant audience and experience in this space we have had people ask us to sell their data and act like a broker of raw data t then others have suggested that we could integrate some interesting data visualisation tools to make the end-user experience better and more engaging t making data make sense gets harder the more you know about data.these are a few of the items on our big list of ideas we still need to work out t we knew there was a good idea behind all this when we started , but we also know how far we are today from making data come alive in the way we know it can.if there's one certainty in this journey it's that we are totally dependent on knowing what people want from us t please let us know what you think we should do t tell us when we've done something you like t tell us when we've made a mistake.give us some direction on what we should do with data now t it's been a good year , but the next year needs to be informed by yfu.world government data• search the world's government data with our gatewaycan you do something with this data?flickr please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our flickr group or mail us at datastore@guardian.co.uk• get the a-z of data• more at the datastore directory• follow us on twittergovernment datafree our datamatt mcalisterguardian.co.uk related articles 6 >>

Spanish reform talks struggle spanish unions said yesterday that they would fight austerity moves in the courts after the socialist government said it would introduced a cut in public sector wages through a royal decree , bypassing parliament . related articles 6 >>